A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture.

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture.

Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes...(展开全部)

This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neolithic figurines, rows upon rows of underground terra-cotta statues, exquisite bronzes, Buddhas carved in cave walls - all these ar...(展开全部)

Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes...(展开全部)

This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neolithic figurines, rows upon rows of underground terra-cotta statues, exquisite bronzes, Buddhas carved in cave walls - all these ar...(展开全部)

罗尔夫·托曼（Rolf Toman），研修德语文学和哲学，德国知名独立出版人和国际知名艺术史研究专家。他曾在一家大型国际出版公司任编辑数年，1992年起成为独立出版人，长期从事文化及艺术史学相关的研究与图书出版工作，并与各国较有影响力的一些大型出版公司有多次深入的合作。与艺术史相关的艺术图书是他的工作重点，多年来组织各地相关专家编著出版过多部与艺术史相关的出版物，并有多部作品被引进中国出版。 阿希姆·贝德诺兹（Achim Bednorz），来自科隆，致力于为建筑与艺术史的出版物拍摄作品图像长达二十多年之久。他将自己定义为“神圣处所的守望者”。 巴巴拉·波隆加塞尔(Barbara Borngässer），德累斯顿人，在柏林、佛罗伦萨和萨拉曼卡从事艺术史、罗马研究和考古学研究，曾有多部现代建筑方面的著作出版。

Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such as nationalityand politics have been brought in to the arena of public discussion. In this ground-breaking account of the dev...(展开全部)

In Art Today Brandon Taylor charts the ideas and practices of contemporary art across a wide international spectrum. From Minimalism and Conceptualism to video and film, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation, he shows how advanced art has continued to provoke and perplex a fascinated public. Art Today shows how the new art of the last three decades has bee...(展开全部)

Painting Today is a comprehensive overview of the last 30 years of painting, presenting work by celebrated figures like Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch alongside emerging artists like Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame. Photo-realism, landscape, still-life, portraiture, neo-expressionism, installation painting and the Leipzig school are just some of the areas of this thriving art med...(展开全部)